Jackie Kearney

Jackie published her best-selling cook book, Vegan Street Food, in 2015 and won PETA’s Best Vegan Cook Book in 2016. Her second book, My Vegan Travels was published in October 2017 and was nominated for an Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award in 2018. Jackie has since published 2 more books, Plant Based Burgers and other fast food fixes (previous titled Vegan Mock Meat Revolution) and Vegan Christmas Feasts, and helped co-write The Healthy Noodle Cookbook with Mr Lee’s Noodle Company (2021). Jackie’s new book, Healthy Vegan Street Food, is due for release on11 Oct 2022.

Jackie was a finalist in BBC One's MasterChef 2011 and the British Street Food Awards in 2012. As a street food pioneer in the UK, Jackie, aka The Hungry Gecko, travelled up and down the country with her iconic trailer Barbarella, serving up Asian street food, as well as working with the MasterChef street food bus. Jackie now divides her time between Manchester and Italy, where she is building a wellness retreat in the Ligurian mountains.

Further information about events and street food inspired recipes to cook at home, can be found on her website www.thehungrygecko.com where Jackie also blogs about food and travel, & also on social media @thehungrygecko